Senator Jim Nwobodo yesterday narrated how his son, Dr.
Ifeanyichukwu Nwobodo jnr died following the alleged negligence of
a doctor.


TheNation reports Nwobodo said his son was cured at the Anderson
Medical Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas, United States. That
Ifeanyichukwu was asked to stay longer in the U.S. but he wanted
to return because he was feeling homesick.
The former governor of the old Anambra State said his son
developed pains in the legs and he was taken to a consultant
oncologist at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH),
Enugu.


He added that the doctor, instead of taking him to the teaching
hospital, which had facilities for emergency, referred his son to his
private clinic. According to Nwobodo, the injection administered on
his son led to complications.


The senator spoke yesterday when Abia State Governor Theodore
Orji visited him in Enugu. Nwobodo said the doctor tried to rush his
son to Niger Foundation Hospital, but he died on the way.
He said:
“My son was ill for five months before I knew about it and we were
planning to go to India before we took him to the U.S. He was given
a visa for two years because the cancer was at stage four, but they
treated him. When he came back, his leg started to swell and he
thought he should see a doctor and I advised him to see the best
oncologist. It took us three weeks to see the doctor.


Ön Friday – I was speaking with him three times a day – and he
was to see the doctor by 5pm and between 5:30 and 6pm, I called
him and he said he was with the doctor. I requested to speak with
the doctor but he said he was busy but instead of the doctor taking
him to UNTH, he took him to his private clinic, where he had no
equipment, no facility at all. I called him again and when I didn’t
hear from him I sent him text and I asked the doctor to tell me why
he gave my son injection that made him unconscious, he said he
was sorry and that he was trying to resuscitate him.



I spoke with him by 6:30pm and by 7 pm he was dead. It is painful
because this is something that would have been averted and I can’t
understand why a dean of Department of Medicine should leave the
hospital where he has all the equipment to go to his private clinic
and I believe that is how some other people die.”